10 Concrete in Australia Vol 37 No 2
NEWS
Launch of the Knowledge Centre
The Concrete Institute of Australia (the Institute) is pleased
to launch its new website, aimed to serve as the Institute’s
Knowledge Centre. The Knowledge Centre has been developed
for several purposes, including:
• Providing a platform for further member benefits.
• Meeting the needs of and assisting to increase the younger
membership demographic.
• Increasing and encouraging higher participatory levels of
the membership.
• Providing greater transparency regarding all Institute
activities and National Council portfolios.
• Providing greater efficiency for committee and business
activities.
• Maintaining pace with technological advancements to
match societal demands and sustain membership growth.
The Knowledge Centre will provide for far greater
transparency of Institute activities within National Council,
State Committee’s and technical groups.
The response to the launch of the Knowledge Centre to date
has been strong both in terms of existing Members and general
industry interest.
The Institute will continue to utilise its new website as a
platform to develop future initiatives that meet membership
needs and attract further organisational growth.
Institute members are encouraged to login and browse the
website and educational programs, view your local Branch
and various committee activities and releases, provide
feedback to committee’s where you feel it appropriate and
make use of the Institute’s Resource Centre – that contains
a wide range of technical material that will continually be
expanded.
The Institute is currently in the process of developing some
of these future initiatives. Feedback from the recently released
membership survey will further assist in providing direction and
priority for such initiatives. Such initiatives will include services
such as:
• Increased technical material on the CIA library, contained
within “Proceedings and Others”.
• Online “Mentoring Service” for Individual Young Members.
• Online “Media Library” contained within the Resource
Centre.
• An area specific to research and development
commercialisation opportunities.
• Increase in organisations listed on the Institute’s search
portal.
• An online space for increased interaction with Corporate
Members wishing to promote technical content of their
product and services.
• A more user friendly online system for election of members
to serve on National Council.
• Social networking ability through a medium that is most
popular with the current membership.
A key aspect to the Knowledge Centre has been the ability to
greater engage with younger members of the Institute and
offer services, such as potential career placements, that attract
student members who will help sustain the Concrete Institute
of Australia over the longer term.
The new website also provides greater prominence for
Concrete In Australia.
Authors are now able to submit papers online, find clear
instructions on submission details and information relating to
the upcoming feature topics.
Members wishing to submit papers, project pieces or other
information are encouraged to view the Concrete In Australia
section via: http://www.concreteinstitute.com.au/Concrete-in-
Australia.aspx.
A screen shot of the banner on the Institute’s new home page.